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[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] skadude66:
People are saying that the bootloader is different between 2.1 and 2.2.1, so I think I might wait and see what others think before I try and root it. Thanks for your help!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] sys6x:
any luck since then to root your Milestone from 2.2.1?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
ive posted this in a couple threads looking for help. No answers. Anybody with knowledge of this please help me...lol

My vibrant is soft bricked. I can access 2e recovery but cannot get into CWM at all. I dont even have the update.zip in my internal. I can get into download mode but odin will not recognize my device. (believe me when I tell you Ive tried it all on multiple computers using different cables, usb slots, etc.). I actually fell asleep at my desk last night trying it all. My question is, can I somehow access the internal storage of my vibrant through my pc possibly ? In order to place the cwm update.zip in the root folder then enabling me to "reinstall packages" through 2e recovery ?

Any help is much appreciated. This is killing me.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Dumb question, but do you have another phone/device which uses microSD cards? Could you simply swap the microSD and copy it?

Or does the update.zip need to specifically be stored in the internal storage?

Also, not wanting to second guess you or anything, but which driver did you install for Odin?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
No questions dumb and yeah i've tried that. The update definitely has to be on the internal

ive installed and uninstalled and reinstalled numerous drivers. Starting with the ones posted throughout xda
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iynfynity:
have you tried reinstalling the drivers?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
yeah ive tried everything on different comps with different os' from xp to vista. Even my macbook pro with windows 7 running on parallels desktop and nothing with odin. Mind you ive used odin before succesfully on the same comp im having problems with now. I gave up on that idea. Im trying to see if i can access the internal storage via the pc with me only being able to get into recovery and download mode
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
+1 Also, do you have Kies Mini installed? I've found that the driver installed alongside Kies works well.

Also, have you tried Heimdall? It's an open-source alternative to Odin. Might be worth a shot.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
i had kies but im not familiar with it at all. Same with heimdall. I went through some guides but I was so frustrated at that time it was like reading binary code
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Do you have adb installed on your computer?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

I downloaded and installed the sdk from there. Is there something more I should have also ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Still looking into it, but I'd say your best chance of success might be through adb in recovery.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Thats what I want to do but I know very little when it comes to adb. Ive dealt with it in on the G1 but im not too familiar with it. Can you help with that ?

reminder I can only get the download mode and recovery 2e running not clockwork or 3e or any of that
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Ok, think I might have a procedure ready. Just a sec.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
I cant thank you enough for even trying to help me. I know this is a pain
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
No problem. So you do have adb setup?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
I do but my comp isnt detecting my phone at all
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Yikes. Ok, so if you boot into recovery and plug the phone in, running "adb.exe devices" doesn't list anything?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
I run adb.exe but it flashes a cmd prompt on my screen quickly then disappears
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
i just opened SDK manager and it needed to update and install packages. Sooooo thats what its doing now
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Ok, go to Start Menu, Run and type cmd.exe

Type "cd" followed by the directory in which the SDK is installed. For me, this is

"cd C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools"

Then type "adb.exe devices"
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
"adb.exe is not recognized as an internal or external comman, operable program or batch file"

wtf

im going to uninstall the sdk and reinstall it. Maybe i didnt do something right
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Have you navigated to the correct directory?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yes, to make it easier I placed the AndroidSDK folder into my C drives root. So my location was

C:\AndroidSDK

and that message came up. I'm uninstalling it now. Im going to reinstall it and not move it. Then use that location in the cmd prompt.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Ah.

Also, make sure with SDK Manager you install "Android SDK Platform-tools"

Couldn't remember if that is picked by default or not.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Ok im reinstalling the SDK. Might take a bit. I also have an ADB.zip which has adb.exe

adbwinapi.dll

adbwinusbapi.dll

when i trying to install the adb.exe is when i get the quick command prompt flash
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Hmm...you might just try extracting that to C:/ADB or something. Then Start, Run cmd.exe

cd C:\ADB

adb devices

Might work?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yeah, its part of the packages that sdk is installing now. Taking forever.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Did that. Got this.

"List of devices attached"
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Yikes. Phone is plugged in and in recovery mode? And it says this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yes. Im assuming that yikes is a bad thing
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Yeah...what OS are you running again?

Also, did you let SDK Manager finish installing stuff? Think it installs the necessary USB Driver.

While phone is plugged in, you should check Device Manager in Control Panel. Should see "ADB Interface" device listed.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Windows Vista Home Premium Svc. Pack 2

32 bit

SDK is still installing packages. Almost done

no adb interface in device manager either
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Ok, you might unplug phone, wait until SDK manager finished, and replug.

Strange thing is I don't think I had to install that stuff for it to work?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Ok so SDK is done and now on device manager under Other Devices i have ADB

Have to restart the comp
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Actually, just to be sure, have you installed the driver from this page:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-T959ZKATMB

Edit: Lol, nvm. See if that works first. If not, try installing the Samsung driver as well (if you haven't already).
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
ok back up and running

Installing that driver (which i have before but im trying everything right about now)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully*

List of devices attached

and nothing in the device manager

this is killing me
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Even the ADB listed under Other Devices is gone?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
yeah thats gone too
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Dumb question, but did you unplug/replug?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
lol....I unplugged-replugged enough to take skin off my fingers. I think its a lost cause
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
fom recovery can you mounty your device then drop your update zip or rom. Flash.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
e.yet recovery ?

i dont know what that is and how would i flash that being in recovery e2 ?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Sorry man. That's about all I've got. Sounds like you've got the right drivers installed, adb setup properly, and the phone in recovery. Don't really know what else to try at this point. It's kind of suspicious that Odin isn't working either...sounds like a definite phone problem to me, but I don't have that much experience. Does the computer even make a noise when you plug the phone in?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yeah. I really really appreciate your help though brother. For real.

Nah the usb sound doesn't come on at all. tested my hd2, so I know it definitely works.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
No I cant mount the device from recovery. Ive placed the cwm update.zip on the memory card using a card reader on my pc but on the vibrant it has to be on the internal memory. Which is what I cant access
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Is it possible to mount storage in stock recovery without using adb?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
From 2e recovery you should be able to reinstall packages and run your update zip..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
When it asks where you can navigate to the right zip.. Did you leave your rom on your internal sd?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inconceeeivable:
Yeah, but he's looking for a way to transfer the update.zip to the internal storage.

To the OP:

The drivers you've installed should work. That being said, you might give installing Kies Mini a shot just for the heck of it...it installs drivers alongside the program. Probably won't help anything, but you can always uninstall if it doesn't work. I remember it helping me with Odin problems.

Hope you figure it out man.

Definitely sounds like a possible hardware issue though.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
ya, and 2e won't let him nav to his ext sd... what is on your sd at this point?

Im sure you probably have already tried this but have you tried batery pull, boot into dl mode odin open then plug in usb?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yeah ive tried that. Odin is not an option pretty much. I need a way to transfer the update.zip to my internal storage.

I also installed kies mini. I have basically everything you would need to do this. Just cant get anything to recognize the phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
Okay... I was trying to read the back posts but let me just ask you... did you install a path for the SDK? you don't run adb exe, you run it in a command prompt and you need to have created a path for it in the advanced features of windows...

make sure you have all your sdk folders in the root which I think I noticed you did. also noticed you have the platform tools so you should be set to go. From you command prompt..(short cut, from the root folder of your sdk tools hold down shift and right click the run cmd prompt)

when you have your cmd prompt from there... type adb.exe. let's get there and then we will work out the rest.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
ok did that. Then ran adb remount and got

error: device not found

im in recovery and plugged in. Also unplugged then plugged back in again
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
okay, have you updated the drivers from here?

http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip

and when you are in adb are you sending a cmd to list devices and getting nothing back? Sorry for the basic q's just walking through a checklist in my head of what I would do in your shoes...

Do you have another android device that you can run the adb cmd on to see if you are connecting?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Yeah I have those drivers.

Yes I get nothing back from list device cmd

Not a problem. I appreciate the time you're taking to help me

Yes I had no problem connecting my HD2 and running adb cmd
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
hmmmm... have you tried this cmd

adb kill-server

adb start-server

adb devices
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
just tried that now

"List of devices attached"

thats it
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
no question marks either? Have you tried adb shell to see if you can get a shell cmd to get you in?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Nah no question marks

and adb shell just gives me

error:device not found

i think its a lost cause
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
it sounds like it... The OP of the rom I am running as an adb whiz... PM him and see if you can get some help there.

Sorry man.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
appreciate it though man

thanks for trying
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Profound:
Can you point me in the right direction ? My brain is fried from doing this the last 3 days
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATT Intruder:
Mikey mike... Serendipity
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
Hi guys! Guess what? The TAB is going like hot cakes at ASDA UK, only £299 SIM-Free right now to get!

A bloody bargain!

Limited offer only!

Get your TAB and expand our forum!

I'm considering getting ANOTHER Tab, so i can show of i have 2 :P

From £437 - £299

http://direct.asda.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab/000504480,default,pd.html

Woot, woot!
[Galaxy Tab General] Bandage:
Looks like they sold all 5 they had in stock...sold out.
[Galaxy Tab General] TheATHEiST:
Absolutely gutted :(

Other week I signed up to contract just to get the Tab as I only had £300 spare to spend. If I had waited a bit longer I could have got the sim free and used my current sim card for data :(
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
im gutted too :( i hope they do this for the galaxy s, i really want a gaaxy s to go with my tab!
[Galaxy Tab General] webvan:
On a related matter, when is the price of the 7" tab going to go down, the 8.9" and 10" have now been announced at $469 and $499...yet the 7" is still at $549 at Amazon (down from $629 admittedly).

I must say the Tab I had for a couple of weeks (loan from friedn) is the best Android tablet I've used so far (MIDnite, Nook Color, Dell Streak 7) and would get it if it was at $450.
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
yeh! more ppl should get it! i really hope asda drop the galaxy s price... is it as laggy as the tab? it doesnt seem so but they have the same specs ...
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
My Tab isn't laggy and never has been!

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
mime is... I am running the stock froyo rom, no mods, just about 25 apps installedand it is very slow to scoll screens, open app drawer etc.

will the galaxy s be like this after settling in on the stock ROM? mine used to be zippy whn i first got it. now it lags. what about the galaxy s?
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
The stock browser didn't perform well for me on the stock ROM, but other than that it was fine. Using later JMx based ROMs fixed that problem too.

I have way more than 25 apps installed too, so I suspect it is something to do with the apps you have installed, but installing a custom ROM like Overcome may well help.

I've not heard of any lag issues on the Galaxy S.

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] zen123:
Got one for £299 minus £10 quidco. Been holding back quite a while but the price was too good to miss.

I nearly returned it yesterday as the stock experience wasnt as good as I expected & browser was pissing me off big time. Spent most of the day researching roms & decided to try rotohammer which has turned the tab into beast. When I have time I'll try different roms to see which is best suited for me.
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
thanks for the info. i may try a custom rom soon, but im new to android. i flashed my first custim rom on my zte blade yesteeday and nearly bricked it!

thanks!
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
glad you got one :)

i am curious to try a custom rom now actually! they must be good!
[Galaxy Tab General] zen123:
Yeah go for it you won't regret. I can actually bowse the full web now, not stupid mobile versions of the sites, email app doesn't crash anymore amongst other things.

I also installed ryanza lagfix & now get 2222 Quandrant score against 1105 before
[Galaxy Tab General] foxmeister:
If you upgraded to an EXT4 ROM, all you've done by installing the lagfix is waste space on your /data partition.

And can we please stop worrying about Quadrant scores? They are an absolute pointless waste of space, that gives no true indication of the relative speed of you device!

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Tab General] :
hi guys, just to let you know, O2 are price matching the Tab instore, and because of that places like Staples should also price match it too!

I got mine from the Bradford store yesterday

: )
[Galaxy Tab General] Hokum:
Got my Tab from Asda Monday (took ages to deliver) so far I like it. The browsing space is much better. I wonder if the unit would of been better with 1Gb RAM though? It's rooted and i'm tempted by a custom Rom but I think i'll hold and see if an official 2.3 roms hove into view...
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
so you got your from o2? what was the exact price?
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
you can use a custom rom, then when the official gingerbread 2.3 flash that!!
[Galaxy Tab General] :
the price was £299. it's locked to O2 but that isn't an issue. ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] olyloh6696:
o2 seem to be having alot of price cuts lately..

their brand new Desire S has just dropped price to £329 PAYG!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ballerkz:
my computer does not recognize my epic anymore. I have the required drivers for it , but it keeps on popping up as an unknown device. I also made sure usb debugging was left unchecked. I have been trying to connect for a few hours now but still no luck.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runngwlf:
What OS are you using on your laptop? If it's windows go to control panel and your programs add/remove (will vary depending on windows version) scroll down to "Samsung USB drivers" and click "uninstall", then reboot. Go to here and download the most recent usb drivers again. Plug in your phone, then install the drivers.

Post your results. Most likely it is not your phone, its a driver that has become corrupt on your laptop. Other possibilities are a bad USB cable or port on your phone.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ballerkz:
I'm running windows vista. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver already, still no luck.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runngwlf:
Have you tried a different USB cable? Did you make any changes to your phone or PC just before it stopped recognizing it?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordxcom:
I had to use a usb hub with a power source for my laptop to see the phone.

Dell D620

Samsung Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoadZombie:
same thing on my pc. I keep getting USB Mass Storage Device Failed Error Code 10. started happening after the first push of froyo. im running Windows 7. very frustrating. :mad:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerm1027:
Epic thread revival! :D

I'm having a similar issue with my Epic. Both my laptop and desktop will recognize my phone as "Samsung CDMA Technologies" However, I can't do anything with it except charge. What's particularly bugging me is

A) Wired (USB) Tether won't work

B) Can't mount SD card through the phone

Laptop Specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Linux Mint 11 64bit (I'm having the same problems with Linux)

Phone Specs:

Epic 4G (SPH-D700)

Syndicate ROM Frozen 1.2

EG22 Moden

Genocide 2.0 Kernal

Here is what I've tried:

Toggled USB Debugging (both on and off)

Used Premium Micro USB cable in addition to stock cable

Uninstalling and Reinstalling drivers

used different USB ports

rebooted phone and computer

It should be worth noting that my phone seems to think everything is a-ok. Wired Tether app doesn't report errors, and when I mount SD card, there is no error either and the phone proceeds with the "USB storage in Use" message. My computer (regardless of which OS I boot) seems to think my phone doesn't exist, unless I'm doing admin type of things, such as flashing via Odin.

Normally, when I had my previous Epic (SRF 1.0.1, EC05, Twilight Zone Kernal), before it was stolen, Wired Tether worked perfectly, especially with Linux (connect as "AutoUSB 0"), and I could mount my SD card.

Suggestions?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyG123:
Go to control panel and have it update drivers from Windows Update. Takes a long time to get them all.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerm1027:
I get the feeling it's more than a simple driver issue. I have the same problems with Linux, and linux has native drivers. And Windows Update is useless. It can't even find drivers for my fingerprint reader. Nevertheless, I will try it next time I'm on my laptop. Windows on my desktop is fubar.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j7jman:
I had the same issue with my pc.. I ended up using an old vista lapptop and everything worked perfectly.. sometimes these pc's just straight out don't work with these drivers.. wish I could help you out more man

Sent from my old but still kickin Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j7jman:
Maybe dialing ##8778# and selecting modem mode under the usb section will help automtically install drivers.. see if that works, it helped me out for the whole epic to boost mobile process

Sent from my old but still kickin Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerm1027:
It's already on Modem mode... :( I'm going to try PDA mode.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerm1027:
GREAT SCOTT!!! IT WORKS!!!! :eek: :D Thx

BTW- I replied to this post from my Linux Desktop connected to the Internets via USB tether. :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j7jman:
Awesome.. glad to help I figured messing with those settings should help, sinced it helped me out

Sent from my old but still kickin Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anderson620:
So I have this problem too but dialing ##8788# doesn't do anything. Am I missing something?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j7jman:
-have youu tried usb debugging?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j7jman:
wait.. i just realized you put ##8788# its ##8778#
[HTC Inspire 4G] Arcano30:
So I decided to Root, S-Off and flash Coredroid v4.7 on my Inspire, but I leave it with the stock radio (12.39.60.19P_26.06.04.06_M), but the signal seems pretty weak even on places where my Nexus one was at full strength my Inspire seems to only be able to grab 2 bars at much, and the WiFI connection seems week too, on my N1 I used to be able to get full signal from more than 20 meters, but my Inspire seems to lose it after 15 meters.

I read some posts and other blogs/forums and some attribute those issues to the radio version, so I hope someone can give me an opinion and tell me if I should Update the radio and to which version if so.

Thanks in advance.
[HTC Inspire 4G] wby300:
Try this

For phone signal, try *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer. This will bring up a screen that has 5 options, I went to phone and scroll to the bottom. Under the preferred network I changed it to GSM only as its an AT&T phone anyway, I was getting 1 or 2 bars at home and was missing calls left and right. after setting this, back out and shut the phone down then restart. I have all 4 bars now. It would also eat the battery, mine was on WCDMA preferred and I think it was searching for that signal constantly. There is a screen for wifi also but there is nothing adjustable there.
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
Odd that it would have WCDMA preferred as default. I just adjusted this as well and it improved the signal in my office. Good catch.